In Kansas and Missouri, the War Between the States started long before Fort Sumter. As it esculates to a declared war, follow Daniel , Rebecca and Andre, as they deal with the war's brutal consequences.
Throw into the mix the larger-than-life characters who played a part in the sectional violence which led the nation into its bloodiest war and you have a novel with all the drama of the era. You'll meet James Lane, JEB Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Joseph Shelby, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, and the other men and women who have shaped this nation into what it is today. You will never look at any of them as just characters in a history book again.